Derek Winnert

Distant Drums ***½ (1951, Gary Cooper, Mari Aldon, Richard Webb, Ray Teal, Arthur Hunnicutt, Robert Barrat) – Classic Movie Review 4784

In 1840s Florida, Army Captain Quincy Wyatt (Cooper) and Lieutenant Richard Tufts (Richard Webb) free prisoners from the clutches of the Seminole Indians, and fight their way back to safety through Indian country in director […]

Dec, 11 · in Uncategorized

Action in the North Atlantic **** (1943, Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop, Ruth Gordon, Sam Levene, Dane Clark) – Classic Movie Review 4783

Director Lloyd Bacon’s exciting 1943 wartime flag-waving adventure movie is a self-proclaimed ‘thunderous story of the men of the merchant marine’ and focuses on American naval bravery in the face of a German submarine attack on […]

Dec, 11 · in Uncategorized

Desperate Journey *** (1942, Errol Flynn, Alan Hale Sr, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Coleman, Raymond Massey, Arthur Kennedy, Ronald Sinclair, Albert Bassermann, Sig Ruman) Classic Movie Review 4782

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1942 wartime action adventure movie tells an amusing shaggy dog story about five guys on a bombing mission shot down in Germany and trying to get back to England with vital information […]

Dec, 10

Tonight for Sure ** (1962, Karl Schanzer, Don Kenney, Marli Renfro) – Classic Movie Review 4737

Francis Ford Coppola’s first film, made when he was 23, is a 1962 sexploitation Western softcore comedy, co-written with Jerry Shaffer, set in August 1961 on the Sunset Strip, Tonight for Sure stars Karl Schanzer […]

Dec, 10

Marriage on the Rocks ** (1965, Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, Dean Martin, Cesar Romero, Hermione Baddeley, Tony Bill, Nancy Sinatra, John McGiver, Trini Lopez) – Classic Movie Review 4,781

The easy-going 1965 American comedy film Marriage on the Rocks reunites Rat Pack icons Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin for a contrived concoction of a marital farce. Sinatra and Deborah Kerr star as a happily […]

Dec, 10

Metropolitan **** (1990, Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman) – Classic Movie Review 4780

Director Whit Stillman’s charming, quirky 1990 drawing-room comedy of preppy manners among New York’s late Eighties privileged classes boasts a witty, erudite Oscar nominated Best Original Screenplay by début writer/director Stillman and sharp playing by a […]

Dec, 10

Some Came Running **** (1958, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer, Arthur Kennedy, Nancy Gates) – Classic Movie Review 4759

There is assured acting all round by a strong cast in director Vincente Minnelli’s powerful and impressive 1958 MGM movie of James Jones’s bestseller dissecting unfulfilled lives in a small Mid-West American town in the […]

Dec, 10

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